[Footnote 26: Mr Eyton, in his _Notes on Domesday_ (p. 16), called attention to this. 'The result,' he wrote (of the Lincolnshire Domesday), 'as to arrangement, is in certain instances just what might have been expected from some haste of process.... The hurried clerks were perpetually overlooking entries which they ought to have seen.'] [Footnote 27: Mr Eyton (_ibid._, pp. 17, 18), while ignoring this valuable and most important feature, notes the employment of a similar device in Domesday Book itself in the case of Yorkshire. 'Against such errors and redundancies a very simple but effective precaution seems to have been adopted by some clerk or clerks employed on the Yorkshire notes. Before transcription was commenced an index was made of the loose notes of that county. This index gave the contents of each Wapentac or Liberty in abstract under the appropriate title; then the measure in carucates and bovates of each item of estate; and lastly (interlined) some hint or indication to whose Honour or fief each item belonged. This most clerkly device will have saved the subsequent transcribers much trouble of roll-searching and a world of confusion in their actual work.'] [Footnote 28: 'Warra jacet in trompintona, et terra in grantebrigga.'] [Footnote 29: To say that the sokeman 'non potuerunt recedere _sed_ soca remanebat abbati', is nonsense, because if they were not able 'recedere', the question of 'soca' could not arise. The formula 'sed soca', etc., is only used in cases where there _was_ a right 'recedere'.] [Footnote 30: In this case the 'n[on]' has been added by interlineation.] [Footnote 31: The meaning, I think, is clear, though badly expressed, 'alias' being, seemingly, put for 'illas'.] [Footnote 32: This error arose thus: The original return (_see_ I.C.C.) ran: 'De his v. hidis' (i.e. in 'Campes') tenet Normannus de Alberico dimidiam hidam.' The Domesday scribe read this hurriedly as implying that Norman's half hide was part of Aubrey's estate here (two and a half hides), whereas it was reckoned and entered as a _separate_ estate.] [Footnote 33: Proved by collation with I.C.C. and I.E., which agree with each other.] [Footnote 34: _Notes on Domesday_, p. 16.] [Footnote 35: _Domesday Studies_, pp. 227-363, 561-619.] [Footnote 36: 'Domesday Measures of Land' (_Archæological Review_, September 1889; iv, 130).] [Footnote 37: _Domesday Studies_, 188, 354.] [Footnote 38: 'vi. carucis ibi est terra'. See _Addenda_.] [Footnote 39: Compare the equivalent tenure recognized in William of Poitier's charter to Bayonne: 'Le _voisin_ qui voulait abandonner la cité sans esprit de retour avait le droit de vendre librement tout ce qu'il possédait maisons, prairies, vergers, moulins.']